


Garden State Acquisition Gets Financing From Monticello
A large skilled nursing portfolio in New Jersey sold thanks to financing provided by two of Monticello Asset Management’s investment vehicles. The $69 million bridge financing is comprised of $65 million in first lien debt and a $4 million working capital loan, which the borrower expects to refinance with HUD. A New Jersey-based operator was the borrower and brings some experience in acquiring skilled nursing facility, having added eight similar facilities to its portfolio in the past three years. This current acquisition involves four facilities and 654 total beds, including 74 memory care and 60 assisted living units, as well as a 16-bed ventilator unit. Read More »Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending October 26, 2018
Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice The Reliant GroupThe Windham Senior LivingN/A Legacy HealthcareAdvocate Sherman West Court$5 million Not-for-profit organizationRose Apartments$2 million Alternative Living SolutionsOntario CommonsN/A Large strategic investorSagebrook Senior Living at... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group’s Billion-Dollar Year (So Far)
The team at Meridian Capital Group just hit $1.0 billion in seniors housing and health care financings so far this year. That impressive haul is spread across more than 40 transactions in 16 states. Most recently, the team, led by Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson, arranged $36 million in acquisition financing for a 700-bed skilled nursing/assisted living portfolio in Indiana. The same trio also arranged $24 million in acquisition financing for a portfolio of rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities with 383 beds in Kansas and Nebraska, and a $20 million construction loan for a 124-bed assisted living/memory care community in Florida. Well done! Read More »
SHA Capital Partners (And Partners) Win with Refinance
Nearly four years after it acquired a 66-unit assisted living community in Portage, Wisconsin (Madison MSA), SHA Capital Partners’ efforts were rewarded when it refinanced and earned a 30.0% IRR and 2.25x equity multiple for its primary equity partner. When SHA and its partner, Matthews Senior Living, made the 2015 acquisition, the community was operating well enough. Built in 1999 and renovated in 2006, it was 80% occupied (with a 20% Medicaid census) and operated at a 32% margin on about $1.55 million of revenues. Paying $5.3 million, or $80,300 per unit, SHA and Matthews then spent $350,000 to upgrade the common area and hired a new marketing director who brought occupancy up to 100%.... Read More »
BMO Harris Bank Finances Seattle Senior Living Acquisition
A large strategic seniors housing investor teamed up with a regional operator to acquire an assisted living/memory care community in Bellevue, Washington (Seattle MSA). Altum Senior Living will take over management and oversee a renovation to the community. To fund the acquisition and upcoming renovation, BMO Harris Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Healthcare group acted as sole lender of more than $16.7 million in financing. Read More »
Bourne Financial Group Finances Brand-New Community With CBRE
Aron Will and Tim Root of CBRE successfully refinanced a brand-new memory care community in the central Washington town of Wenatchee. The 48-unit community just received its certificate of occupancy and expects to obtain its licensure shortly. Then, fill-up will commence. The property’s location in downtown Wenatchee, less than a quarter of a mile from one of the top regional hospitals, should help attract residents. It also features a number of high-end amenities, including a spa, solarium and beauty salon. Bourne Financial Group owns the community in a joint venture with operator Cascadia Senior Living. Thanks to CBRE, they received a $9 million floating rate loan, with a five-year term... Read More »
Getting Out of Ohio
A publicly-traded REIT and national skilled nursing operator tenant divested a geographical outlier in the state of Ohio with the sale of their 30-unit assisted living community for an undisclosed price. Located in the town of Mansfield (about halfway between Cleveland and Columbus), the community was the tenant’s only assisted living operation in the state, hence the exit. It opened in the 1980s and has consistently been well occupied with stable cash flow, thanks to their enrollment in Ohio’s Assisted Living Waiver Program. Alternative Living Solutions, a local provider, saw the opportunity to expand the community and acquired it with the help of its regional bank lending partner. Ben... Read More »
NIC Takeaways
Record NIC attendance hints at continued investor and lender interest in seniors housing and care. It was yet another record crowd at the NIC Conference, which brings up a point I kept on making. If the headwinds are so strong, on many fronts, why are there still so many more people who want to invest, lend or operate in this business? The simple answer is good returns and an even better future, at some point. What were my takeaways? First, that there is just too much equity capital available. Think about that. Ten, 15 and 20 years ago, that statement would have been laughed at. Second, the skilled nursing sector appears to be primed to turn around before seniors housing. Why? There is... Read More »
CBRE Closes Freddie Mac Green Advantage Loan
The Reliant Group is going green with its latest acquisition in Fresno, California, thanks to financing arranged by Aron Will, Austin Sacco, Andrew Behrens and Jesse Weber of CBRE. Built in 1989 and since then, the target features 200 units of independent living and assisted living spread across seven buildings, including one main three-story building. It is located in an affluent neighborhood of Woodward Park in Fresno and is within two miles of three healthcare facilities. Reliant and its operating partner of the deal, Cadence Senior Living, will execute a significant capital improvements project to upgrade the common areas, units and exterior as well as reduce the property’s... Read More »